Race Forward

Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation is a nonprofit racial justice organization with roots in Oakland.[1] Race Forward's mission is to build awareness, solutions, and leadership for racial justice by generating transformative ideas, information, and experiences.[2]

Race Forward
Formation1981
Type501(c)(3)
PurposeRacial justice, civil rights
Director
Glenn Harris (2017 - present)

Rinku Sen (2006-2017)

Gary Delgado (1981-2006)
Websitewww.raceforward.org
Formerly called
The Applied Research Center

History

Race Forward was founded by Gary Delgado in 1981 and was known as the Applied Research Center until 2013.[3][4] Delgado remained in leadership until 2006, after which point Rinku Sen became Executive Director.[5] In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion and is now under the leadership of Glenn Harris, former President of the Center for Social Inclusion.[6] Rinku Sen remained with the organization as Senior Strategist.[5]

Activities

Race Forward advances racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.[7] The work of Race Forward focuses on finding ways to re-articulate racism in order to draw more attention to the systemic racism that pervades society.[8] This work is based in an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.[3]

Race Forward emphasizes three principles: using specific and plain talk to say what you mean about race issues; focusing on impact rather than intention; and using strategic terms as well as moral arguments.[7] The organization has published important research reports and editorials on issues such as millennials and their attitudes towards race, environmental issues and grassroots organizing, race and religion, and police accountability.[9][10][11] Race Forward uses research on community demographics and shifting populations of Black communities to understand and support community organizing efforts.[12]

Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.[13]

Publications

Publications from Race Forward include:

Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s (1994)[14]

Deliberate Disadvantage: A Case Study of Race Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996)[15]

Education and Race (1998)[16]

Crisis: How California Teaching Policies Aggravate Racial Inequality in Public Schools (1999)[17]

Facing the consequences: An examination of racial discrimination in U.S. public schools (2000)[18]

Racial profiling and punishment in U.S. public schools: How zero tolerance policies and high stakes testing subvert academic excellence and racial equity (2001)[19]

"Cruel and Usual: How Welfare 'Reform' Punishes Poor People (2001)[20]

Welfare Reality (2001)[21]

Mapping the Immigrant Infrastructure (2002)[20]

Profiled and punished: How San Diego schools undermine Latino and African American student achievement (2002)[22]

Multiracial Formations (2003)[23]

Race and Recession (May 2009)[24]

Don’t call them “Post-Racial”: Millennials’’ attitudes on race, racism, and key systems in our society. (2011)[25]

Shattered families: The perilous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system (2011)[26]

Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit

Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines, published by Executive Director Rinku Sen. Colorlines was initial a magazine, and it transformed into a website in 2010.[8]

In 2015, Race Forward launched an interactive multimedia tool called "Clocking-In," designed to highlight race and gender inequality in service industries.[27]

Conference

Race Forward presents the Facing Race: A National Conference. Facing Race is the largest national biennial gathering of racial justice advocates, journalists, community organizers, artists, and more.[28] The November 2016 conference in Atlanta featured speakers including Isa Noyola, Alicia Garza, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Michelle Alexander, and included discussion about strategic responses to the election of President Donald Trump, with a focus on solutions and opportunities to grow existing racial justice agendas.[1] In 2018, the conference in Detroit featured keynote speaker Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement.[29]

References
  1. "What Are Activists Doing to Stop Trump's Racist Agenda? - November 16, 2016". SF Weekly. 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. "About Race Forward". Race Forward. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  3. Bernard, Riese. "Colorlines' Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming 'Race Forward'". Autostraddle. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  4. Walljasper, Jay (January 1996). "Celebrating Hellraisers: Gary Delgado". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  5. "Rinku Sen". Facing Race: A National Conference. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. "Possibility and Scale: The Merger of Race Forward and CSI". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  7. "Talking about race". MIT News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  8. "Envisioning and Enacting Racial Justice: Rinku Sen the Force Behind Race Forward". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  9. "Millennials don't know how to talk about race, and that's a problem". PBS NewsHour. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  10. SEN, RINKU (2003). "Who's Got the Power? Resolving the grassroots-intermediary rift". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 10 (1): 26–56. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41554366.
  11. "OPINION: For police accountability, look beyond individual racial bias". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  12. Sullivan, John (2011). "African Americans Moving South — and to the Suburbs". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 18 (2): 19. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41554768.
  13. Arnold, Eric K. (2017). "The BLM Effect: Hashtags, History and Race". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 21 (2): 10. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 44687751.
  14. Stoecker, Randy (1995). "Community, Movement, Organization: The Problem of Identity Convergence in Collective Action". The Sociological Quarterly. 36 (1): 127. ISSN 0038-0253. JSTOR 4121280.
  15. Younis, Mona (1998). "Chapter 11: San Antonio and Fruitvale". Cityscape. 4 (2): 240. ISSN 1936-007X. JSTOR 41486484.
  16. Duncan, Garrett Albert (2000). "Urban Pedagogies and the Celling of Adolescents of Color". Social Justice. 27 (3 (81)): 41. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29767228.
  17. Epstein, Kitty Kelly (2005). "The Whitening of the American Teaching Force: A Problem of Recruitment or a Problem of Racism?". Social Justice. 32 (3 (101)): 100. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29768323.
  18. Thompson, Gail L.; Allen, Tawannah G. (2012). "Four Effects of the High-Stakes Testing Movement on African American K-12 Students". The Journal of Negro Education. 81 (3): 226. doi:10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. ISSN 0022-2984. JSTOR 10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218.
  19. VOLANTE, LOUIS (2008). "Equity in Multicultural Student Assessment". The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) / Revue de la Pensée Éducative. 42 (1): 23. ISSN 0022-0701. JSTOR 23765469.
  20. Delgado, Gary (2004). "Recruitment of Advocacy Researchers". Journal of Public Affairs Education. 10 (2): 170. ISSN 1523-6803. JSTOR 40215653.
  21. Shaw, Kathleen M. (2003-12-19). "Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy". The Journal of Higher Education. 75 (1): 76. doi:10.1353/jhe.2003.0053. ISSN 1538-4640.
  22. Monroe, Carla R. (2005). "Why Are "Bad Boys" Always Black? Causes of Disproportionality in School Discipline and Recommendations for Change". The Clearing House. 79 (1): 49. ISSN 0009-8655. JSTOR 30182106.
  23. "Multiracial Formations | The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project". www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  24. Bond-Graham, Darwin; Liu, Yvonne Yen (2012). "Communities of Color Organize against Urban Land Grabs". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 19 (1): 66. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41762547.
  25. Kanny, M. Allison; Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Johnston, Marc P. (2015-05-18). "Examining the Significance of "Race" in College Students' Identity Within a "Postracial" Era". Journal of College Student Development. 56 (3): 241. doi:10.1353/csd.2015.0023. ISSN 1543-3382.
  26. Sánchez, Patricia (2014). "Research and Policy: Dignifying Every Day: Policies and Practices That Impact Immigrant Students". Language Arts. 91 (5): 371. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 24575547.
  27. Innovation, Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice. "Race Forward Launches Interactive Tool on Race and Gender Employment Inequities". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  28. "Facing Race: A National Conference in Detroit, MI 2018". ssw.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  29. Podder, Api (2018-04-23). "#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke to Keynote Facing Race National Conference in Detroit". My Social Good News. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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